Push for Preprints "Scientists supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants should be required to release their research as a preprint rather than receiving additional money to publish it open access, according to a report." #AcWri#AcademicSky#MetaSci#UKUnis
Forcing UKRI-backed researchers to publish their papers as preprints would save £40 million annually and ‘accelerate scientific progress’, says thinktank
Forcing researchers to do anything is a bad starting point in an academic system that individualises institutional problems. The average researcher didn't create the mess of academic publishing. The pre-prints should then 'count' as a 'real' publication as a peer-reviewed journal article would.
But they still have to publish. APCs are just higher for open access at most journals right? How will they pay to publish/get formal peer review?
"UK universities paid some £93 million to access research papers in 2014." 🤯